Stuart Beattie Boards Daughter of Smoke & Bone

First announced in December of 2011, Universal Pictures has plans to bring Laini Taylor’s fantasy adventure Daughter of Smoke & Bone to the big screen. Today, the studio has revealed that Stuart Beattie will adapt the screenplay

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”; she speaks many languages–not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out. When one of the strangers–beautiful, haunted Akiva–fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

Beattie previously wrote the screenplay for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for Paramount and Collateral for DreamWorks. He also wrote and directed the Australian hit feature Tomorrow When The War Began and is currently awaiting release on I, Frankenstein, which he also wrote and directed.

Im thrilled to have Stuart Beattie adapting Daughter of Smoke & Bone; its been fantastic to delve into the world of the book with a screenwriter of such insight and experience, said Taylor. Between Stuart, Joe Roth, and Universal Pictures, weve got a team with massive epic flair, and I cant wait to see what unfolds as we move toward bringing Karou, Akiva, Brimstone, and the world of Daughter of Smoke & Bone to the screen.